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AIIPTI'OR,
A. J. illMkTntr,
OF WAYIIII..
“Vrhße the army blighting. you as eit
isahasso that the war is prosecuted tor
Aktrpreoervation of the Union and the.
Constitution. and of your nationailly and
'tout 4 rigitts as eittsens.”
SCO. 8. McCLELLAN.
ph-write Coastnights and the Union!
piece thew together if they stand, the y
Wet gland together; If they fall, they
spot lit togetker.P.oasie/ Webster.
- PRESIDENTIAL ELECTORS.
ELEeTWIS AT ,LAROZ.
Robert P. Johnson.. of Cambria,
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Richanl Vett; of Philadelphia.
DISTRICT =porous.
Ist tn. Loughlin, 13th Paul Leidy,
74 E. B. Helinbold, 14th Rohl Sweiuford,
Edward P. Dunn, 15th John hl,
4th M'Cigh)oo4 ltith Henry G. Smith,
r T. lith Thaddeus Banks,
0. Gerhard, lath 11. Montgomery,
'Rh Geo. P. Ulric, 19th Jno: M. Irwin,
Bth Michael Seltzer, 20th J. M. Thompson,
Patrich M'Aroy, Stst Erasttts Brown,
Pith T.'H. Walker, 112 d Jas. P. Barr,
111tit0. S. Dimmick, 23d Wm. J. Koontz,
I;4CA, Dunning, 24th W. Montgomery.
!ASS MEETING!!
OF THE
141110011 CT OF GIME Cirri,
TO RATIFY THE NOMINATION OF
4ism.. Geo . g McClellan,
FOB
HON. GEORGE H. PENDLETON,
FOR VICE PRESIDENT
The Democracy of Greene County
7i ill meet ii Waynesburg, on
IVM)AY, SEPTEMpEF/ 20TH, '64,
to ratify the nominations of Gen. Gao.
JJ. MOCLELLAN and lion. Gao. 1 1 . PEN"
*Aaron. The harmony and unanimity
the Chicago Convention, eminently
461122401 tJie hearty endorsement of the
ttemottraej everywhere, and of all lovers
of ear Constitution—our Union, and
of such camniligmary measures, as alone
Oie WO:tea to %Sore pan to our dis
tracted country, and obedience to the
Ponstitution and the laws throughout
every State of the Union. And the pub
lic service, the wisdom, the patriotism
and Statesing.nahip of the nominees ; no
lesi demands the hearty endorsement of
sores 7 patriot,, and every lover of peane,ot .
law and order, and of every unii6ndition
li Union man, throughout the land. We
re, cordially invi*
.and feel it our
duty tp . IS upon all such, to acme k t
4014.i0P9. and give your voices, and
rear inikenoe to pp men and principles,
'wigink alone elm atad miti preserve the
Conntititinn initi the' "Union.
A. FURMAN, Q. D. c. c
We all attenuants the artiele copied
*eta the "Richmond' Edqutrer" in aftofilier
`fin, in which that paper expresses its
ipplantoeshoc /4. Zoo*, over Glen, Me.,.
404
asscandie4.,.. Priiiegoc7. —
Will oar Bepnaucan * friends please note tha
I moigkost which itsirefoiatesa are lit ; ,
*Ws oes, so who are their
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The friends of Kr. Use*. hays the Chi
cago Pont, eeMplaid bitterly that the reeolu
dons adopted by the Chicago *mention do
not rentals enemy dihignertlendttlif to reader
the Detneastic party alkalies to the lord
pee* of lie United States. They rdse cana
-1 plain that the reeolatioas de net denounce
the rebellion, 'The last ob j ect is s most silly
one, because it assumes that there is a neces
',sky ,for denouncing the rebellion, when in
fact there was nota man in that conveution
-who was not hostile to it, and who had de
nounced it from the begiining. The Bepaii
-1 teems in one of their early platforms de
nounced slavery and polygamy as the twin
relics of barbarism. In the Baltiinore plat
form of 1864, they omit all denunciation of
polygamy ; yet would it be fair to say thit
because they d:d not repeat their denuncia
tion of in ae.knowledged Mine and abotniaa
tie!' they therefore sympathize with it ?
But the Chicago platform contains one
declaration which the country north and
south and the world at large will accept as
of far more importance than an empty reso
lution denouncing the rebellion, and that is
that the Democratic party will permit no
peace, save that peace which is founded on
the basis of the Federal Union of the Statee.
The Omfederate government will understand
by that natakiesais declaration that there can
he no recognition of the Southern Conteder
pneseet or remote, and that persistence
in the rebellion it hat a wicked waste of life
and treasure, because the war must end in a
restoration of the Union, be the cost what it
may. To the world, that &aeration pro
claim that the repreeentation that soy par
ties or party of the people at the north were
willing to accept the independence of the
South as the alternative of war, or were will
ing to advocate the possibility of the Ameri
lean Union being divided into two or more
oenfederacies, was made in total ignorance
of the feelings of the people, and is an un
mitigated tilsehood. This declaration of the
I Democratic party excludes the possibility of
a dissolution of the Union by war, by peace
ful negotiation, or by any other means than
those provided for in the Constitution of the
United *Mee. When the requisite number
of states voluntarily vote to destroy the con
stitutiqn and break up the Union, they have
the power so to do; but until that event oc
curs, which will not likely be in this or the
next generation, the Demecratic party ad
vise the rebels and advise the world that
there can be no recognition 3f the indepen
dence of the south, or of any other confeder
acy of the States, but the federal union of
the States must be upheld, let the c.mse
quencea be-what they may.
In this day of national tribulation, when
the people have for four years been watching
the administration struggle in their feeble
way to keep the rebels , nut of Washington
and out of the Northern States, it will he re
freshing, and will be aecepted as promising
in the future, when the Democratic party,
by en Unanimous vote, proclaims that there
can and shall be . ne more peace save on the
basis of the , federal , ..4en of the States.—
That means something, It is
substantial ; has a real significance and con
veys a solemn assertion of the utmost mo
ment to the rebels, and to the nation gener
ally. The platformt enteltni no formal de
nunciation of the rebellion ; such a denuncia
tion would amount to nothing ; but this sub
stantial declaration of an important deternii
nstiem is more fatal 'to the rebellion than
would be if theuated resolutions embracing
the most superlative of condemnations. It
is a diret notice in the name of the entire
Democratic people that this rebellion, must
step, and that when it does stop leaving the
Union exactly where the Constitution places
it whole, entire and indivisible It is a no
tice to the confederate government that while
the Democratic party will do much, will do
anything that can be done under the present
or an amended constitution, to parch&
peace and maki that peace perpetual, that
party will listen to no proposition, be it peace
or war, that doe& not require the Union to
be maintained, with its written constitution
unbroken and nnvieleted ; with its flag un
changed and its territory undivided. With
the Union thus preserved and to be preserv
ed, the Democracy propose to do all in their
power, dcneistent with 'the -Constitution to.,
make that Union the abiding place of peace,
and a Union in which and ender whose pro
tecting constitution people of each section
shall be free from unwarranted interference
by the people of other sections, and where
the whole people niaY rest assured that they
can lime in the peaceful enjoyment of their
liberties and their property.
Such an Union was the one contemplated
by the framers of our ; ebestittition. Such an
Union, resting for its strength upon the love
and affection .rather thandm the arms of the
people, it will be the voispicet and the policy
of the party to restore, establish and main
tain.
At this moment the -hopes of the rebels
are in the election of Mr. Lincoln. Ilis.poli
cy is the Union but without ..alavery ; the
policy of the pembcnitib ' . partzis the Union
with or without slavery. The rebels can s.e
that the preservation of the Union is the first
considetotitek with the - one party. . and th at
the presessation of the Union is only of sec
ondary importance with the other. The one
party denies that the Union shall under any
circumstances he destroyed ; the other ad ;
miti and cenoedes that the Union, withale
very, is not of sufficient importance.to justi
fy a !draggy!, for its maintenance, The re
bel; gutturally incline to the seeress Of that
party which concedes the great I* . int at is
sue-,-the adeieabirdy- and • practicability of
dissolving the Union. If Am Republic=
party had sesumedtio3 high ground end lsed
'aseerted the in of :their Orpose'te
iH rtiono the Up* wtatbit; slaiery * Wei
0 01 i# 1 4 fstl i ff th 0 47.*Viad
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et the liettine aI the diaceilty.
The ("hit:age, l 4 6taveldfir; .4. a poem'
tion xhich the follpirilg is a nopy:
"Beaded, 'hat the shameful 4likergard of
the administration to -its 4ety in respect to
our fellow citizeim nim now and long have
bees prisoners et lair in * suffering condi
, tion, deserve the severest reprehit ion on the
, score alike of public as COMM(' humanity."
The public, generally, do not understand
why oar poor soldiers who were so utiferttt-.
ante as to be captured in this war, have so
long been left without being exchanged, and
permitted to return to the army or their
friends Recently published correspondence
between the commis si oners of exchange, re
veals the tact that the Rebel govertnnent
w iii not regard negroes captured, who were
formerly slaves, as prisoners of war, but in
sist en their right to return then to their
former masters, front whom they were stolen,
er front whom they ran away. they pro
pose to exchange white INsn for white man,
so far as they will go ; the effect of which
would be to relieve all of our white men
: from eaptirity, and still have enough of
i Taste prisoners is our hands to cover the
five or six thousand Negro prisoners in their
. hands. But Gen'l Butler refuses this rea
sonable offer, because forsooth, the Rebels
will not regard Negroes, thus situated, as
prisoners of war I He will not even leave
ting an open question to be settled hereafter!
And our poor fellows sme ermapelied to lan
guish in military prisons, in an - unhealthy
climate with insufficient food and clothing,
simply because our government in its crazy
fanaticism, would put Negroes in the regu
lar army, instead of putting them at work in
the trenches, and in employing them, as they
might profitably have been, in the Quarter
master's Department, or otherwise ! It
will be strange, indeed, it seems to us, if
the friends of these poor fellows-at home, do
not hold this administration tesponsible for
the untold suffering thus needlessly inflicted.
Even many of the Republican newspapers
speak out is strong terms of denunciation of
the laministration fiur causing this unneces
sary suffering amimisery. We give the fol
lowing specimen from the Springfield Re
publican, one of this clam of papers:
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"The letter of General Butler to Mr Ould
is dated "in the field, August" (no thy), and
the purport of it is that the government will
not exchange according to their own offer,
till the Confederates agree to exchange black
as well as white soldiers. There the matter
sticks. General Butler argues forcibly that
the Government is under obligations to pro
tect all its soldiers, without regard to color,
and that the Rebels cannot hold their re
captured slaves as property since we hare
freed them, and they are no longer property.
But the fact remains that we might recover
all our white soldiers in rebel hands by the
proposed exchange,. and yet hold a large bal
ance as hostages for the colored soldiers
while their status is in controversy. Gene
ral Butler wholly fails to make out any ne
cessity for leaving our white soldiers to suf
fer and die in Southern prisons ; it does not
help the case of the. negroes one iota, and
we cannot find is his letter a shadow of rea.t
son why we Would not exchange men for
man until we recover every one of our White
soldiers-from the enemy. The honor of the
government would not beat all compromised
by it, on General Butler's showing, and we
adjure the president to interpose, and not
allow this important matter to be naisinan.-
aged any longer,
sr The Pittsburgh "Commercial" in two
or three ot its late numbers, has been quite
unnecessarily alarming itself with the notion
that the principal purpose of the Chicago
Convention, was and is, to recognise the in
dependence ot the Rebel States. 'We trist
our cotemporary will relieve itself from all
apprehension on that score. The danger of
the recognition of the Southern independence
lies much nearer its own door, Your neigh
bor of the Pittsburgh Gazette or New York
Tribune, and papers of the extreme Radical
Abolition stripe, will inform you any day
that you ask them, if they' speak frankly,
that they will sooner consent to the indepen
dence of the Southern States than that they
shall return to the Union, with slavery among
their local institutions.
The danger in reference to Southern lode
pendence, lies in the continuance of the Ab
olition party in power, and the prevalence of
their plan of waging the war for the ernanci
petion of the Negro, ar4 foreshadowed in the
President's late "to morn it may concerti"
letter, and the measures generally, which the
Republican party have been urging for the
past two years.
For the benefit of the "Commercial" and
those who read his paper, we insert the reso
lution of the Chicago Platform on the subject
which seems to have so painfully afflictwd its
nerves: •
Resolved, That in the future, as in the
past, we will adhere with unswerving fi
delity to the Union under the Constitu
tion as the only solid foundation of our
strength, security, and happiness as a
people, and as a frame work of govern
ment equally conducive to the welfare and
prosperity of all the States, both North
ern and Sonthern.
The Louisville Journ®l Hoist; the Me.
.For the first time in its history, the Louis
vile Journal, the able organ of the Whigs
and OonserVatires of Kentucky, haft% the
Democratic flag by putting McClellan and .
Pendleton at the head of its columns ae its
choice for President and Vice President.—
The old Whig and Union party of Kentucky
will vote in a solid mass fir them. It is
doubtful Whether . Lincoln can 'get' ten thou ;
sand votes inthe whole State:
mar l freely acknowledge myself to be
the servant of thepeople, according to the
bond of service, the United States Oonstitn
tion, and as such 1 am r , lsitile to them.
tsibraluun Unasln In 1862.
Boy hos lifr. iel _kept this pledge,—
i!t4).l Ilsbwprotest of Wade and Winter Davis,
ie wilid9lo Jianhargai with "naurpatioa"and
a ‘*nnialt !writ* odt the leithdative author
ity got Ow 'P e * e. '"l l4l. ' ll° Y ie " ig
oftl l o l o4* viotaiwohof 1411 . 0einitiltaikit
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tiati" ivompajo*sn,
• at takirthept46,
Clellan Flag,
e - "OW*Wif . Lia%r tr-re"!"--
ceptance.
We take plea=re is calling the attention
of our readers to the clear, explicit and Sat
isfactory response . of Geri'l McClellan to the
Chicago Convention's nomination. It leaves
no room for cavil, and is well received every
where by the Democratic party and Cimser
vative men of every political party:
Garth-mem: I have the honor to ac
knowledge the receipt of your letter in
forming
. me of my nomination by the
Democratic National Convention,. re
cently assembled at Chicago, ps - their
cuididate at the next November elec
tion for President of the United States.
It is unnecessary for me to say to you
that this nomination comes to me un
sought. lam happy to know that when
the nomination wag made the record of
my public life was kept in view. The
eile , tt of long and varied service in the
army, during war and peace, has been
to strengthen and male indelible in my
mind and heart the love and reverence
for the Union, Constitution, Laws and
Flag of our country, impressed upon
me in early youth. These feelings have
thus far guided the coarse of my life,
and must continue to do so until its end.
The existence of more than one govern
ment over the region which once own
ed our flag is incompatible with the
peace, the power and the happines of
the people. The preservation of our
Union was the sole avowed object for
which the war Was commenced. It
should have been conducted for that
object only, ant/ in aixxtrdance with
those principles whieb I took cession
to declare when in active service.
Thus conducted, the work of recon
ciliation would have been easy, and we
might have reaped the benefit of our
mauy victories on land and sea. The
Union was originally formed by the ex
ercise of a spirit of conciliation and com
promise. To restore and preserve it,
the same spirit must prevail iu our
councils and in the hearts of our people.
The re-establishment of the Union iu all
its integrity is and must continue to be
the indispensable condition in any set
tlement. So soon as it-is clear, or even
probable, that our present adversaries
are ready for peace upon the basis of
Union, we should exhaust all the resour
ces of statesmanship practiced by civili
ized nations and taught by the tradi
tions of the Amerimn people, consistent
with the honor and interests of the
country, to secure such peace, re-estab
lish the Union, and guarantee _for the
future the constitutional rights of every
State. The Union and the one condi
tion of peace, we ask no more.
Let me add, what I doubt not was,
although unexpressed, the sentiment
of the Convention as it is of the people
they represent, that when any one State
is willing to return to. the Union, it
should be received at once with a full
guarantee of all its constitutional rights.
Ha frank, earnest and presistent ef
fort to obtain those objects should fail,
the responsibility for ulterior consequen
oo will fall upon those who remain in
arms against the Union. But the
Union met be preserved at all hazards,
could -not look in the face of my gal
lant comrades of -the army and navy
who have survived so many bloody bat
tles, end tell them that their labors and
the sacrifice of so many slain and woun
ded brethren had been in vain ; that
we had abandoned that Union for which
we have so often periled our lives. A
vast majority of our people, whether in
the army and navy, or at home, would,
as I would, hail with unbounded joy
.the permanent restoration of peace on
the basis of the Union, under the Con
stitution, without the effusion of another
drop of blood. But no peace can be
permanent without Union.
As to the other subjects presented in
the resolutions of t'ie Convention, I need
only say, that I should seek iu the Coa
stitutiou of th*Uuited States and the
laws framed in accordance therewith the
rule of my duty, and the limitations of
eiecutive power; endeavor to restore
economy in public expenditure; re-es
tablish the supremacy of law, and
. by
the operation of a most vigorous nation
ality, resume our commanding poSition
among the nations of the earth. The
condition of our finances, the deprecia
tion of the paper money, and the bur
dens-thereby imposed upon labor and
capital, and the necessity of a return to a
state of a good sound system, while the
right and the binding authority of law
over President, army and people are
subjects of not less vital importance in
war than in peace.
Believing that the views here ex
pressed are those of the Convention and
the people you represent, I accept the
nomination. I realiie the weight of the
responsibility to be borne, should the
people ratify your choice. Conscious of
my own weakness, I can only seek fer
vently the guidance of the Ruler of the
Universe, and relying on his all-power
ful aid, do my best to restore Union and
Peace to a suffering-people, and to es
tablish and guard their liberties and
rights. I am, gentlemen, very rf tvect
fully, your obedient servant,.
GEORGE, B. Nef,:II,Y3I,AN,
To ilogAro Seysiorn, and others Corn.
mar If we understand the desire of the
people, it is that an honest effort shall be
made to restore peace and the Union of the
Statee, and that this effort shall 'be made
promptly and in goodiaith, This reasonable
hve has been blasted by the letter of Presi
dent Lincoln,. written "to.whom it nay CO4-
cern." It is very evident from that letter
that he has no deaire or intention of the
kind. Neither be nor Jeff Davis has the
control of the Slavery ipiestion. That be
longs to the States, both in the Southern
Confederacy and the Union. No one knewa
this better than lifr. Lincoln. He never
made - a greater mistake, than in penning that
letter. He and his friends now see this, and
are endeavoring to explain it away, but with
out success. lle evidently fears to meet the
people at the bailot box, upon tlte jou think
raked - by.
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net wed* afisk4i;smistbasuos SA that
AkitOse Wiriatiwy I NH%
tiii,f`War,~4lKorliol4ll4lolPlet***4llo
ept
using incident it Ale Oieng, t.
•
vention,
Many amuirg-locidents occurred within
the-last - week, illsOf thertould all be pub
lished, they wool& afford,* vast 'deal of en
joyment. A very eadiehms affair occurred
at the Sherman house on the night of the
great ratif i cation meeting. Two gentlemen,
from abroad, had retired at an early hour,
and were endeavoring to sleep, hut the clam
or of twenty thousand persons in front of
the houre, end the voices of the speakers in
terfered with their designs' most seriously.—
About 11 o'clock one of them raised a win
dow and addressed the multitudes as follows:
"Gentlemen—l have the honor to announce
that (leorge IL 'GCS/ellen has arrived and
i s now in this room." The assertion seemed
to take PM' a times 9.4 , 14 enthusiastic cheering
for Little Mac was at mice commenced.—
Preseutly another head popped out of the
window and addressed the audience as fol
lows: "Gentlemen—l feel grateful for the
compliment you have bestowed upon ins, and
would cheerfully make you a speech; but I
have traveled a great way to-day, am very
weary, and all I can say is, I'd be d—d glad
if you would all go to bed !" Roars of laught
er followed this brief but profane address,
but the people did not go to bed, and t h e two
young men were annoyed several hours long
er.
The Great National Auction Sale.
The "Government" in the person of Abra
ham Lincoln will retire to private life on
the 4th of March, 1865. His administration
having selected many things which will be
of no use to his successor, who will adminis
ter the government in accordance with the
requirements of the Constitution of the
United States, win dispose of, for "whom it
may coucero," the following relic=, viz
The National debt of $4.000,000,000.
The National Tax Law.
The Stamp Act.
The Conscription Act.
The Emaucipation Act.
The Proclamations.
The 1,000,000 Loyal Office-holders.
The Bogus Governors.
The Bogus States.
Time Army of Provost Marshals.
The Bastiles.
The Legal Tender Notes,
and many other things not herein mentioned
incoln's "Ten Thousand Thanks."
When McClellan had succeeded by dint of
unparalleled skill and exertion, in safely
bringing the army that had been destroyed
by Washington politicians through the seven
days fight to the James river, Lincoln tele
graphed to him as follows:
Wasnisoxos, July, 3, 1865.
Yours of yesterday is just received. lam
satisfied that yourself, officers and men have
done the best you could. All accounts say
better fighting was never done. Ten thou
sand thanks for it.
Within tour months thereafter Lincoln had
i‘o
removed this same General, 'whom ho thus
thanked, from command; had been compell
ed to recall him again, and had again remov
ed him. Such was old Abe's gratitude. It
is McClellan's turn now to remove Old Abe.
—Albany Atlas,
or The New *Raven Register gives the
followitrg account of the scene on board the
Lr. S. transport General Sedgwick, on the re
ceipt of the news of McClellan's nomination,
There were on board some 600 soldiers bound
for the front and at the time a saute was
firing iD honor of the nomination :
"As the first gun echoed over the bay, one
of the soldiers hailed a boat to know "what
the firing was thr ?" On being told, he
threw his cap in the air, and give three cheers
tor "Little Mac." In- a minute he was sur
rounded by his comrades, when a call was
made for "three more!" and "three more !"
and still "three more !" which were given
with such a will as to be heard far up Meet
street. Not a cheer fur Lincoln in all that
ship !
A Distinguished Convert
Iron. E. C. Seaman, editor of the Ann
Arbour (Mich.) Journal, one of the lead
ing and most influential Republicans in
that State, has come ought against Lin
coln. He says:
"Believing that the war is now pros
ecuted for an impracticable purpose—
that the Union can never be restored
and a permanent peace established be
tween' the free and the slave states so
long as the emancipation and restora
tion policies of President Lincoln ace
persisted in, lam in favor of change of
policy; and of making an effort to restore
the Union on the old basis."
ar The hest evidence of the wisdom of ti e
action of the Chicago Convention, in the cor,
dial and harmenions nomination of Gen.
MoCLat,TAN is the fact, apparerit as the sun
et noon-clay, that of all tne aspirants in the
Democratic party, his nomination was most
dreaded by the Republicans. They were ev
erywhere predicting his defeat—predicting a
bolt between what they were pleased to call
the Peace Democracy and the War Democ
racy was indeed the cruellest of wet
blankets thrown over their darling hopes,
that the nomination of gcCiellan WAS MADE
UN mmers, upon the motion of VAtLA
INGHAM !
The Draft.
Mr. Seward, in his Auburn speech, made
few evenings ago, asserts that there "will be
tae draft;" but Mr. Stanton, quite as posi
tively asserts that there trill be. We do not
know which tells the truth, Seward was
probably "in his cups" at the time, and was
oblivious of what he was saying,
Out for 1400144 n,
The 'atiennl /etelligoncer the old Whig
°igen, and heretofore the ablest opposition
paper in the United States comes out for
Gan. Geo. B. 14cC1allen,- So ' they ge!—
Begets.
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The Richmond Enilpirer out for -Lip-
grom the Mehmond. Enquirer of Sept. stb,)
The DeMocratic nominees in the
United States are McClellan for Presi•
dent and Pendletott for" Vice President.
What concern have the people of these
Confederate States in the fate of those
candidates at the approaching election
In our opinion, the interest aid hope
of peace is not greatly advanced by
these nominations: From Gen Mc-
Clellan our people can have but little
hope of peace, other than a reconstruc
tion peace. He was an early volun
teer to aid in our subjugation ; he la
bored most diligently to organize an
army for our destruction ; he was the
supple and pliant tool of Abraham Lin
coln; he deliberately struck down the
Legislature of a sovereign State and im
prisoned its members; he commanded
the armies of invasion, and sought. with
every instrument of power and wrong
to destroy the sovereignty of these
States. What hope does his antece
dents hold out that should encourage
our people to believe that lie would
yield our nationality any sooner than
Mr. Lincoln" lie is by far the more
dangerous man for us; had his policy
been persistently followed, and the war
conducted on the principles of civilized
warfitre, he might have divided our
people, and, perhaps, conquered our
liberties. With consummate abilities.
he clearly foresaw that emancipation
might possibly free the negroes, but
could not unite the sections ; that con
fiscation might enrich his soldiers, but
could not reconcile our people ; hence,
with an honest and earnest love for the
Union he avoided those fatal acts, and
conducted the war for the restoration of
the Union, rather than the destruction
of the South. His policy was the olive
branch iu one hand and the sword in
the other, to conquer by power and
conciliate by kindness. It was a most
dangerous policy tnr us, tor if the ame
liorating hand of Federal kindness had
softened the rigors of war, our people
would not have been subjected to those
terrible fires of suffering by which Mr.
Lincoln has hardened every heart and
steeled every sentiment against our mer
ciless tnes. As a sincere Secessionist,
preferring war and nationality to peace
and the Union, we looked upon the
fact of a difference between Mr. Lincoln
and Gen. McClellan as to the proper
policy of conducting the war, as perukstr
ly fortunate for our cause. We hailed the
proclamations of emancipation and confisca
tion, and the policy of plunder and demsta
lion as sure pledgez of our ultimate triumph :
they were terrible °ldea; but they mist effec
tual% eradicated every sentiment Of l'non,
and arousing the pride as well as the
interest of our people, inflamed the
patriotism of the whole, until they
would have accepted death as prefera
ble to ultimate defeat
Now between McClellan and Lincoln
there are many points of difference—the
former is a man of talents, of informa
tion, of firmness and great military ex
perience and ability—the latter is a sup
ple, pliant easy fool, a good but vulgar
joker.
While McClellan has the interest of
the Enron only, at heart, Mr. Lincoln has
Vie fanatical algal of Jrecing negroes for
his ituipiration. Between "my plan" as
Gen. Grant has conducted it, and one
by Gen. McClellan, there could not
have been the same success that has al
ready attended our - arms, for we lost
more men fighting the science of Mc
clellan ou the Peninsula than we have
in repelling the furious but ill-conduct
ed assaults of Gen. Grant.
A. LlNoot. c
Thus, whether we look at this nomi
nation in the light of peace or war, we
PREFER Lescotai o McCLeu.AN. We
can make better terms of peace with an
anti-slavery fanatic than with an earnest
Unionist. We can gain more military
success in a war conducted on ‘-my
plan" than one of a real soldier like
McClellan, and sooner destrcy the re
sources and strength of our enemy
where they are mluaged and manipula
ted by the light fingered gentry
Messrs. Chase and Fessenden, than
when husbanded and skillfully controll
ed by such a man as Guthrie. Our best
hope isfrom the honest fanatics of the Uni
ted States; men who believe- in their
hearts that slavery is the "sum of all
villianies," and who really and sincere
ly- believe it to be their dray to %pirate
their country - from this "relic of barbar
ism " Such men, when they find that
their people are tired of the war, will
end it by a pace that sacrifices territory to
freedom, and will let the South "go," pro
vided she carries slacmy Oh her, 1 hese
men believe no less that the just pow
ers of geprinnent are derived from the
consent of the governed, than "that all
men are created free and equal." The
two postulates are of the like impor
tance to an Abolitionist.
Both - the Abolitionist and the Demo
crat is our enemy—the one, because we
have slaves; the other, becafee we are die
unionists. Nor does their enmity differ
iu degree; they both hate us roost in
tensely. The Chicago platform is that
"peso; may be restored on the basis of
th e Federal Union of the States"—that
is: reconstruction of the Union as it
was—with slavery protected by nomi
nal laws, but warred upon by a real sen
timent, aggravated and embittered by
the war. The reconstructed Union of
the Chicago platform would be the cer
tain destruction—first, of slavery; and
next of slave-holders, With Lincoln
and the Baltimore pl,stform, we of the
Confederate states kaow where we are
,outside of the pale of mercy, devoted
to ruin and deStruction, with no hope
save iu the justice and protection of
God, and the courage and manliness of
oar soldiers and people. With swords
and muskets and eannon we fight Lin
coln, and the past affords no reasons of
appreheillsion of the future? But in the
reconstructed Union of- the Chicago
platform, we would be deprived of our
weapons withu4t rteenciled to
our foes.
C 4V4M.tN
There ie no Option. that Ipetween
he two Gen. Bia,lollan enj: lt T e s br
• t of the PeoP .of
Liflotga , gi°
." re' c9r
Moil
and the Pesnocmq than under n awf
the PapubNatift The Sorthw inspires
one,sad New England the other—but
as lng as New England imp‘Aes the
4o g rpais of her civilization and the ten
etspf her fanaticism upon the mind and
people le the Northwest, there may be
peace and separation, but there can
never be Uniot. and harmony. If the
Northwest desires the restoration of
the Union let iti people shake off the
bondage of New England. and show to
the that n new era of toleration
and fraternal kindness has risen in the
place of fanatical Pnr . raani,in awl 4elfisl,
ostracism.
The worhl will more neillt• Le'heve
in the power and disvi,i , lon of the
Northwest to preserve the Con-titution
and protect the sight , of Cl.. St a t e l,
when the safety and seci.rity •,1 their
own citizens awl the guaratite,ed 61'iirta
-if their own States are mar,foll.)• arid de
terminedly assf.rted
against the domination of New E :4 7
land. We would :0, - , p.pn with
the legions of ifell uhile a L tain with
New England. here is with
our irreconcilable hatm, I of both , -ections
of the United States. -oniefting of re-
Sptet G,r the SO:li'T'S et rltt
fighting for ttn- Ur,ion iwles
cribable ciintempt 39.1 :r; , • 1 for the
minions of New Englm who. fighting
for the Negroea. are v. , t, o cowardly
to iloa their own fightii.g. but buy up
G ermans and :4.,"e,/r1..,-, %; it h mow they
have made out of the Northwest If
Gen. Metlellan and th. l),:znocracy can
drive out New England. the vtcp may
!lase ken taken that :uay , otne
distant generation to reconstruct with
the Northw e st but fir years awl many
years there had bettir be separaticin
ith the usual trade and treaty regula
tions between the tut/ nations. A 9
long as New Eugland is part of the
United States, we prefer its disciple,
Mr. Lincoln, fir reasons we have given,
to Gen. McClellan.
stir I f niggers makes a_s good soldiers
as the Abolition reporters would have
us believe why in the name of all that's
good don't the "Government - quit draft
ing white men, and take all the blacks'
There is any amount of them here that
could be spared, and although we have
no desire to see the poor fellows drag
ged into a war which they did nothing
to bring about, yet it would save the
lives of so many white men ; and as Ab
olitionists say that all who die on the
battle-fields in this contest go straight
to Heaven, it would be such a good
chance to get the•"cause" of our troub
les shipped off to that "better country."
where neither niggers, slavery, aboli
tionism or war is known. Belle fonts
sarThe President of the United States
has recently pardoned Howard, the Forger
of the President's Proclamation, for the in
nocent publication ot which the "New Rork
World" and "Journal of Commerce" were
soppre4sed! What a mockery of justice,
palpable perversion of law, and open partial
ity is shown here, by the unworthy occu
pant ot the Presidential chair.
1-It is said that the Hon. 3oLo Hickman,
formerly member of Congress from the Ches
ter district, is determinedly opposed to the
re-election of Abraham Liocolo. Mr. Hick
man was formerly one of Forney's demigods
Why dosen't "the President's, dog" hark at
Ilickinau?—Lebo non Arlterti,er.
gor One of our correspondonts with Ger
eral Grant's army writes us : "The nomins
of McClellan and Pendleton is received very
enthusiastically by the army generally, and
political conversation is all the rage."
bar The men who have friends in the
army who wish their return, will vote for that
Democratic noininees, tor they are nomina
tedon a platform which will give peace to
the nation.
In pursuance of a published call, the citi
zens of Greene county. Pa., witl.out respect
to party, assembled at the Court House, iii
Waynesburg, on the 80th of August, 1804,
when the following proceedings were had.—
The meeting was called to order by A. A.
Furman Esq., and for the further organiza
tion, on mo ti on , the following officers were
elected ; President, Daniel Fuller, Esq., Vice
Presidents, Harvey penny, Thomas McClen
athan, &taloa - Thomas and Hughes Meighen ,
Esqrs. ; Secretaries, Eieuts, James A. Wood s
and J. Jackson Putman, On motion, the
following persons were appointed a commit
tee, to draft resolutions expressive of tile
sense of the meeting : John Phelan, ,
Wm. Braden, John Dowlin, Henry Bell and
Wm. Simpson.
During she abscenco of the Committee,
Mr. Furman was called upon and made a
strong, well timed speech, setting forth the
object of the meeting. The committee re
turned and presented the following resolu
tions, which on motion, wets adopted unani
mously.
Peaolrei, That Re respectfully request His
Abraham Lincoln, President of
the tufted Mates, to postpone the draft.
which, by his proclamtion, is directed 1p take
place on the sth day of September nest.
We submit the follow iug as a few of the
many reasons in favor of the postponement
requested :
let. A conscription or forced draft is sl
a ays to be avoided if possible.
2d. A Volunteer soldier is much more val-
uable than' an enforced pap.
3d. Volunteering is ea rapidly going for
wart' over the country, as to lead to the be
lief thit by giving time, there may be no
necessity top a drat ;
.4th. The season jri the ye4r-f.or calling the
citizen awry font; hie farm, at the time when
be is about putting in his crop, shonid ii
possible, lex avoided.
Reso/red, That the officers of this meeting
ere heMit l y pitted a 'Comonttee to for-
Wer,dAtne to the rteathent, of
tille*Obtatotew,
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For the lieseonger